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20 Apr 2018 |
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Southern California leaders to fight climate change’s effects on health
Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years in economic development and progress in global public health unless leaders from every sector work to change dependence on fossil fuels, a new report concluded.The report, published Monday in The Lancet, Britain’s medical journal, is considered a major study on climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Alaska’s terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
The fires are just the latest indicator of a climatic transformation that is remaking the state — its forests, its coasts, its glaciers, and perhaps most of all, the frozen ground beneath — more than any other in America.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is El Nino to Blame for the “Explosive” Zika Virus Outbreak?
A worker in Brazil disinfects the famous Sambadrome as part of the fight against the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which spreads the Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. Marcelo Sayao/ZUMA The outbreak of Zika virus in Latin America is “spreading explosively,” the director of the World Health Organization warned at an ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hospitals urged to save money while improving environmental impact
Measures to help the NHS both save money and reduce its environmental impact have been proposed in a new report from the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU). The report sets out 35 interventions which, if they are all implemented, could save £414m and 1.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year by 2020. This would also […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Was Climate Change Partly to Blame for Europe’s Deadly Heat Wave?
Climate change is directly responsible for more than 500 deaths in London and Paris during the heat wave that swept Europe in 2003, according to a new study by the University of Oxford. In the three months from June–August 2003, searing temperatures — the hottest recorded in Europe since 1540 — caused upwards of 70,000 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About
Studies have shown that improved access to birth control can be a valuable tool in slowing global warming, but many politicians are afraid to broach the subject.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Worrying weather: roller-coaster temperature swings increase risk of dying, new study finds
People living in places with wildly swinging temperatures are more vulnerable to health problems such as heart attacks, respiratory ailments, and increased heart rate, blood pressure and cholesterol levels
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Link Between Zika and Climate Change
Last year, a team of researchers made a surprising discovery: Aedis aegypti mosquitoes—the species that spreads West Nile Virus, dengue, chickungunya and, most recently, Zika—were living year-round in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In a paper published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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In East Porterville, drought escalates mental health issues
Manuel León’s fight for his own life began long before la sequía – the drought – swallowed up the water under his East Porterville home and with it, his only escape from reality.He was sick before the backyard cherry, apple and pear trees shriveled, before the onions and roses wilted, before his vivid green lawn […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future
Spread by mosquitoes whose range inexorably expands as the climate warms, Zika causes mild flu-like symptoms. But pregnant women bitten by the wrong mosquito are liable to give birth to babies with shrunken heads. Brazil last year recorded 4,000 cases of this “microcephaly”. As of today, authorities in Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, ...